No mound rises from the grass, no ring of stones breaks the surface. The only way to see these ring barrows clearly is from above, and even then, only under the right conditions. A ring barrow, for the unfamiliar, is a prehistoric funerary monument consisting of a flat circular platform enclosed by a surrounding ditch, or fosse, and a low earthen bank. At Ballynamona, centuries of agricultural improvement have worn the visible traces almost entirely away.

The three monuments were recorded and described by O'Kelly in 1944, who noted that all three were strikingly uniform in character. Writing in that year, O'Kelly described them as circular flat spaces surrounded by continuous fosses and banks, with the banks slight but the ditches reasonably well defined. The diameters of the three measured 4.5 metres, 5.5 metres, and 7.3 metres respectively, suggesting a tight, coherent group rather than monuments of different periods scattered across the landscape by coincidence. Despite this early documentation, the barrows never made it onto the Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, which means they existed in a kind of administrative blind spot for decades. By the time aerial photography became routine, the surface remains had vanished entirely; orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012 showed nothing. It was only in a Google Earth image captured in September 2019 that a circular cropmark appeared, betraying the presence of at least one of the buried monuments beneath the pasture. Cropmarks form when buried ditches or banks affect the moisture and nutrient content of the soil above them, causing overlying vegetation to grow differently, and dry summers tend to make them most legible.

There is nothing to see at Ballynamona in the conventional sense. The site is in working agricultural land, and without prior knowledge and a close reading of the Google Earth imagery, the field looks entirely ordinary. The cropmark evidence suggests the monuments are best observed remotely rather than on the ground. Researchers or enthusiasts interested in the broader archaeology of the area would do well to consult the National Monuments Service record, where the three barrows are registered under the references LI040-061007 through LI040-061009. The site is a useful reminder that much of Ireland's prehistoric landscape is not absent but simply invisible, legible only from altitude and, sometimes, only in the right season.